Deck 2 (AudioNeeded) Flashcards
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Colleague
A fellow member of a profession, staff, or organization; an associate.
— Nineteenth-century naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley, a colleague of Charles Darwin, was the first to suggest that dinosaurs and birds were related.
— In the nursing professiong one needs to both speak plainly to patients and switch grears when listening and ineractlng with doctors using the specfic medical terms.
Colleague / Colleagues
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Extricate / Extricated / v.
ex·tri·cate / ˈek-strə-ˌkāt
‘ə’ the upside down e is pronounced as a relaxed ‘uh’
To be untangled, set free or otherwise released from something you need to be extricated.
— He was trying to extricate himself from many of his official duties so he could spend more time with his family.
— Boris, having apparently relieved himself of an onerous duty and extricated himself from an awkward situation felt great relief.
a Using Higher Level Words or Not
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Extricate / verb
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Hyphen Basics
A hyphen is a punctuation mark that connects words. The first word becomes an adjective modifying the 2nd one.
— Fifth-grade or well-known
— Peer-reviewed research is needed to verify any scientific claim.
— Able-bodied means one is physically strong and healthy.
Note: Most prefixes do not need a hyphen.
Hyphen Basics
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Similes & Metaphors
Simile: are when two unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.
— My brother and I fight like cats and dogs all the time.
— “As light as a feather.” or, “As busy as a bee.”
— “She runs like a gazelle.”
Metaphor:
A metaphor is like a simile but without the like or as.
— I’m a night owl but she’s an early bird.” Both are metaphors.
— Shakespear’s line, “All the world is a stage.”
Vocab-Pairs: They both create the same effect, metaphors flatly state it without the ‘like’ or ‘as’.
Similes / Metaphors
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a Anorexic
a-nə-ˈrek-sik
An eating disorder usually occurring in young women that is marked by an intense fear of becoming obese, extremely poor eating habits, and dramatic loss of weight. This eating disorder is exacerbated by designer clothes runways that consistently show very thin models.
— She was so thin and ate so little we worried she might be anorexoic.
— About one out of fifty women suffer from anorexia nervosa.*
*The medical term for this condition,
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EXACERBATE: To make worse or more severe
Waxing Gibbous / Waning Gibbous
Gibbous describes a certain phase of the moon, when it’s bulging outward but isn’t quite full.
A waxing gibbous moon is one that’s getting progressively rounder, night after night. While a waning gibbous moon it getting progressively smaller & less round.
Waxing gibbous is more than half-lit, less than full, moving towards full.
Waning gibbous is after the full Moon.
A GIBBOUS MOON
a A Vocab-Pair: Waxing & Waning
Pairs of words that are often learned together. Usually they are opposites.
Waxing Gibbous & Waning Gibbous
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CRESCENT / Shaped like a crescent
If a crescent moon that is growing in shape we refer to it as a waxing crescent, while if it is diminishing in size we it is called a waning cresent.
— Just after the new moon in early evening looking west, and you will see the sliver of a new cresent moon. In the days that follow it is waxing (getting bigger).
— At the end of the moon’s cycle in the early morning, just before sunrise looking east you will see the waning crescent moon.
CRESCENT SHAPED
a Waxing Cresent & Waning Cresent:
In the east the waning cresent moon leads to a new moon, followed by the rebirth of the waxing crescent moon seen in the west near sunset. To be reborn in the western sky is both a reality and a romantic notion.
Cresent:
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CRESCENT MOON
Mortal & Immortal / Vocab-Pairs:
Mortal: Subject to death:
— All humans are mortal.
Mortal: as an adjective: Causing death:
— a mortal wound.
Immortal: Never dying; living forever:
— The Greek gods were believed to be immortal.
Having eternal fame:
— The immortal words of Shakespeare.
An ‘immortal’ being:
— The ancient Greeks believed their gods were immortals.
a Vocab-Pairs: We often learn words in pairs, usually the opposites. Waxing and Waning are also a vocab-pair.
Mortal / Immortal
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a Malignant vs Benign
Vocab-Pairs: Malign is to speak evil of; slander: malign a person’s reputation. While benign means to be kind; gentle; harmless; mild; favorable.
— A benign face with a warm smile.
— The tropical climate is quite benign except when a hurricane hits !
Medically: A malignant tumor grows uncontrollably and spreads to other parts of the body. A benign growth is just an irregular growth and is not cancer or tumor at all. A biopsy is the best way to tell if a tumor is benign or malignant. During a biopsy, a doctor removes a sample of tissue from the tumor and examines it under a microscope.
Word Origins: The word root mal means “evil,” as in malnourished: badly nourished. While bene means “kind” as in ‘benefit’.
a. Malignant & Benign: also a vocab-pair
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a Rhythm n. / Rhythmic adj.
Movement, action, or sounds that occur in a regular sequence or pattern:
— Hearing poetry read aloud, we feel the rhythm of the language, which conveys much of its beauty.
— The group of instruments supplying the rhythm in a band is appropriaztedly called the rhythm section.
— Rhythmic dancing all depends on the dancer staying in touch with the ‘rhythm’ of the performer’s voice.
— You might drift off to sleep lulled by the rhythmic noise of rain on the roof.
THE RHYTHM OF POETRY
More: Anything or anyone with rhythm can be described this way, including the rhythmic sound of a horse’s hooves against the ground.
You can also describe the cycle of things that happen in life or nature like the ocean tide or the passing of the seasons as a rhythm.
Rhythm n. / Rhythmic adj.
words chane a Plague n. / Plagued v.
Centuries ago, in the Middle Ages, the bubonic plague was a horribly contagious illness that spread like wildfire through Europe, killing millions of people. Thanks to the introduction of better hygiene and antibiotics, plague doesn’t describe a killer disease as often these days.
— Instead, it commonly overstates an annoyance, like an apartment dweller claiming his building is plagued by cockroaches.
— Today inflation is plaguing Americans’ money worries.
— Sleeping sickness has plagued Africa for years.
Plague n. / Plagued v.
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Catalogue n.
catalogs; cataloging; cataloged
A catalog is a book or pamphlet that lists many things:
— The catalogs tells you all the things you can buy from that particular brand or company.
But you can also use catalog to mean any kind of listing.
— In an argument, you might say, “Why don’t you just make a catalog of all my faults!”
— When you’re making a catalog of any kind, you’re cataloging.
In the old days libraries had card catlogues.
IN THE OLD DAYS ALL LIBRARIES HAD CARD CATLOGUES.
Catalogue n.
catalogs; cataloging; cataloged
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mobil / mobile /moblize
When something is mobile it can move or be moved easily.
— If you walk to the end of the block talking on your cell phone, you are both being mobile and using a mobile device ;).
— A mobile is also something you hang over a crib to entertain the baby. , or a scale model of the universe.
— Since 1940, the word mobile house was used to refer to a house that could be easily moved.
Today we just call them manufactored homes and they no longer have wheels.
Immoblize:
— In these mouse experiments the scientists has to immobilize their heads to get clear scans that are not blurry due to the mouse’s movement. .
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mobil / mobile / immoblize
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Accelerate
Accelerate means to speed up, to go faster.
— A car accelerates when you step on the gas.
Science fact: Physicists never speak of deceleration, for mathematically, it is just negative acceleration. When the rocket is slowly down, it is negatively accelerating.
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Ascend / Descend: A Vocab-Pair
Ascend: To go or move upward; rise:
— The balloon ascended rapidly.
— The prince ascended to the throne and so became king.
Descend: To move from a higher to a lower place; go or come down:
— The airplane descended for a landing.
— The path descended along the side of the cliff.
Descend also means to come from an ancestor or ancestry:
— Our neighbor descends from New England settlers.
Ascend / Descend: A Vocab-Pair
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a Hierarchy
Hierarchy describes a system that organizes or ranks things, often according to power or importance.
— At school the principal is at the top of the staff ‘hierarchy’ while the seniors rule the student ‘hierarchy’.
— There’s this whole weird ‘hierarchy’ in 5 star restaurant where the chef is revered as this god.
— The basic idea of the food chain is a who-eats-who type of mapping with the ultimate predator at the top of the hierarchy.
EXAMPLES OF HIERACHIES
Hierarchy
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Agile
a-jə(l)
Able to move quickly and easily; nimble:
— an agile mountain climber.
— Mentally quick or alert: an agile mind.
— On water skis she was agile and made sharp turns and long arcs cutting through the water, but she was a lot less agile on the snowboard, landing on her face and hands as she clunked down the slopes.
— Human and virtual minds also earn the description agile when they’re sharp and grasp ideas or reason with speed and easy logic.
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a Acrobatics / Acrobat
ˈækrə ˌbædɪks
Remember ‘ə’ is pronounced as a soft ‘uh’.
An acrobat is someone who skillfully performs gymnastic feats or other actions that involve agility and balance, such as a trapeze artist soaring through the air, or a tightrope walker at the circus.
Acrobatics refers to the performance of those moves.
— The 90-minute show will be filled with the acrobatics and other circus arts Cirque du Soleil is known for.
— The Blue Angels Jets are known for their air acrobatics shows.
— Mikkelsen trained as a gymnast and then was asked to execute some flips and acrobatics in a musical.
Additional Note: Aerobatics also refers to stunts done in planes or jets. Aero– comes from Greek āḗr, meaning “air.”
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Acrobatics / Acrobat
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ACROBATS DO NEED TO BE “AGILE”
a Wretched adj/Wretchedly adv
The fairy tale Cinderella gives us many examples of uses for the word wretched.
— Poor Cinderella had a wretched childhood, living in wretched conditions with a wretched stepmother. It would be enough to make anyone feel wretched, or absolutely terrible. Wretched is an all-around unhappy word.
— Wretched working conditions or a wretched person.
Also can mean ing inferior in quality:
— I stopped watching the wretched movie after 20 minutes.
Wretched adj /Wretchedly adv
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We consider the trees we planted to honor our mothers as shrines.
Shrine / noun
Set up some candles and a photograph of someone important in your life in the corner of a room where you spend time reflecting silently, and you’ve created a shrine. Many shrines are alcoves, or sections of Churches, Mosques or Synagogues. .
— We visited the shrine next to her tomb of a 16th century saint
— Sometimes a whole church or mosque is considered a shrine.
– The Christain shrine was magnificently adorned with the gold and silver and jewels offered by the pilgrims.
a Nature Shrines: Many places in nature are considered shrines. Native Americans always considered Mount Shasta in Northern California a shrine.
Shrine / noun
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